12/28/19

8:20 pm

Misty Mountain 19F

How am I... alive?

Cord's Final Explosion sent a shockwave towards me and Abby and we both hit the wall at about seventy miles an hour. So unless I'm dreaming that I'm awake, I somehow survived that attack. But how?

I opened my eyes to find myself sitting up with my head right on top of the rocky wall I supposedly took damage from a few moments ago. Turning my head while groaning, I noticed Abby right next to me, fainted. In the distance was Cord and Chris—both fainted—laying down, right next to each other.

Probably the best thing about this was that Chris doesn't have that weird fire effect in his eyes anymore.

I finally got myself to walk slowly toward Cord's Treasure Bag and grabbed a Reviver Seed from there. There was only one left in the bag, and Cord said he "wanted to be carried to the next floor," I think. The good part is I didn't go to him anyway.

I went to Abby.

"Now... How do I do this?" I know that Reviver Seeds doesn't have an effect if a Pokémon eats it—and probably tastes bitter. I decided to place the seed in Abby's forehead... Sure enough, the seed lit like a lamp. In a few moments, the seed stopped glowing, making the seed now a Normal Seed. "Abby, are you awake?"

A moment of pause happened before I heard a voice. "Ugh..." Abby slowly opened her eyes to look at me right in front of her. "W-What happened?"

"Long story short," I quickly explained. "Cord did his explosion. We both got knocked back to this wall, knocking you out. And I somehow survived and gave a Reviver Seed to you... I'm still wondering about how I survived though."

"Didn't you have an orb on your hand?"

I looked around the area I landed at to find no orb anywhere. If Cord said the orb would be activated after he did his move, then...

"Oh, Cord gave me the Reviver Orb we grabbed in Charred Chambers." That makes a lot more sense now.

Abby grabbed Cord's bag and raced toward Cord and Chris. "Is Chris... Back to normal?"

"Well..." I said looking right at his head, which looked creepy since his eyes were open. "His eyes don't have a fire effect," I said, stating the obvious, "so that's a start."

Abby finally used her soft voice to use a sigh of relief. "So... Cord wanted us to carry him and Chris here to the next floor. How are we going to do that?"

Let's see. Alolan Raichu weigh about 45 to 50 pounds... "I'll carry Cord."

Abby immediately moved her head towards me. "Lucas! Y-You can't carry Cord by yourself! At least let me try to do it."

I disagreed. "No chance. You take your brother. It's only fair."

"Well... Fine." Abby finally said after debating with herself. My paws found a good enough grip to lift Cord up. Take a deep breath now, Lucas...

With all my weight spread around me, I lifted Cord up. Honestly, I have no idea how I did that in the first place. "Oh my—!" Abby moved back surprised, her eyes widened. "How?!"

"Let's just say I lifted things like this before," I said chuckling.

I started to walk towards the stairs—which coincidentally were right behind us, when Abby approached me. She was carrying Chris around her back, which I guess was simpler, considering Eevee's weight was about 15, 20 pounds. "You sure about carrying Cord up these stairs?"

"Trust me, I'll be fine." I got my first look at the stairs to the peak... And they were twice as long as the regular stairs we took to get here in the first place. "Shit," I said with a sigh. Maybe this was a bad idea. "Ladies first?"

Abby smiled and started climbing the stairs.

Meanwhile, I took a deep breath and started to slowly make my way up.

"So... Are you going to explain that Electro Ball throw earlier?"

I groaned inside my head. Now I wished I didn't do that pitching throw earlier. "Let's see... I learned Electro Ball this morning, and it always formed in my hand, and not in my tail. So, I had a weird idea. What if I created power from thrusting my arm and threw the Electro Ball at my target? It would help create velocity and—."

"Create more damage because of the impact."

"Exactly! It took me a while to get a handle on that idea, since I had to aim from a distance. But this was the first time it worked without doing a test." I honestly never knew that in two days of being a Pokémon, someone knew about the science of those moves.

"We're almost there, Lucas! Just a couple of steps!"

Ten. More. Steps...

***

8:30 pm

Misty Mountain (Peak)

A loud thud was made on the 20th and final floor of Misty Mountain. It didn't really startle anyone here, because three other Pokémon were here—with two of them being fainted. The Pokémon that made that noise was me, as I laid down on the gravel floor with Cord still on top of me.

"Lucas, are you okay?" Abby looked at me while using her own body to plant Chris on the floor.

"Depends. Why did you convince me to carry Cord in the first place?"

    Abby went toward the side of me and pushed Cord off my back. With my airway finally fully open again, I got the taste of the limited air because of the altitude here. "Well, you convinced yourself, and I couldn't stop you. Besides, you did a pretty nice job carrying him until now."

    I thanked her and looked ahead of us. There was the wooden cabin Cord was talking about. "It's a... It's a very small cabin," I duly noted.

    "Yeah but if the cabin is recommended by Cord," Abby responded while moving Chris. She opened the door and peeked inside. "He probably spent time in it."

Abby went inside the cabin with Chris inside and closed the door. I went behind Cord and started to push him toward the cabin. Eventually, the door opened when I finally got there, and Cord was right in front of Abby when I entered.

"What the..." I said amazed. The cabin was about twice as big as the cabin that appeared on the outside! A couple of chairs and couches surrounded a brightly lit fireplace. Maybe with the adding of a kitchen and a bed, this would look like an actual house.  "How's it even possible?"

"Well, it's the work of a Psychic type." Abby moved towards a couch across the room. "I guess Cord can be placed here."

Chris was already in a comfy chair, so I assumed the couch was for Cord because of his size. I slowly pushed the Raichu to the spot and with the help of Abby, lifted him toward the couch. "Well, guess we're going to have to wait now."

"I don't know about you," Abby looked at me, "But I'm going to sleep. Goodnight." She went toward another couch, took one side, and went to sleep.

I sighed loudly. I was finally alone... I got to say, this was probably, no, this is the greatest two days of my life. I finally got the chance to see Cord again after three years. I solved the case that for some reason still hasn't become cold yet. And along the way, I've become and met a Pokémon.

But I guess there are some questions still in the air. What made Chris attack the three of us like that? Was that related to the Bisharp earlier this afternoon? And who would know about my humanity? It was too much to ask myself, so I did the best option at the time:

I slept on it.

***

12/29/19

6:00 am

Misty Mountain (Peak: Cabin)

"Hey..." I heard a whisper coming from right on top of me. I couldn't recognize the voice in right now but whoever it was...

Their breath stinks.

Anyway, I opened my eyes and found myself looking at a silver furred Eevee looking right at me. "Chris! You're—."

"Shh!" The Eevee interrupted me. "I wouldn't do that if you look at who's next to you." Who's next to me? What the heck does that mean? I slightly tilted my head...

And Abby was right next to me cuddling me while sleeping... Wait, what?!

My body tried to move back to realize the large pillow was trapping me. How did this even happen? I slept on the opposite side of the couch and faced the opposite direction. "Did you do this?!" I whisper-shouted at Chris.

"What? No! I woke up to see you two like that."

I sighed. "Ok, I'm going to try to move out very slowly..." Chris held Abby's arms, which were on top of me, so I was able to scooch down the couch. Sweat was coming down on me, because I felt that I was going to place one of my body parts accidently on somewhere I shouldn't be touching...

Let's not talk about that.

After what felt like an eternity, I finally got my head out of Abby's body, and took a sigh of relief. "Thank God."

"Don't you mean Arceus?"

I looked at Chris instantly. "Oh, yeah! That's what I meant!" I said while grinning with a sweat running behind my head.

Chris tilted his head completely confused. "Right..."

I laid myself on the cushion for my back doing a big groan in the process. Fortunately, it didn't wake Abby or Cord, who was still laying down on the other couch. "I wonder why Cord hasn't—. Whoa!"

The couch fell from its back, hitting the floor. I landed softly on a cushion, but Abby rolled off the couch and hit a nearby table. To our surprise, Abby still didn't wake up.  I stood up. "Man, your sister is a really deep sleeper."

She woke up immediately after I said that.

"What the? What happened here?!"

"You were sleeping next to Manny." Chris responded.

"Dude!" I looked at Chris pissed, "Really?!"

"You do realize that was for a reason, right?" Me and Chris turned our attention toward Abby. "Wait, you don't remember it?"

Chris was looking at me, which made me shrug. "Remember what?"

A slight chuckle came to the Eevee's face before responding. "I woke up in the middle of the night to see you mumbling something about Cord. With your body language and the jittering you were sometimes making, it looked like you were having a nightmare. So I woke you up, and calmed you down. I guess I slept with you after because you felt warm..."

A weird tint came towards the both of us before I shook my head out of it. "Yeah... But how come I don't remember any of that?"

"Who knows why?" Chris asked. "I'm just wondering if that was the—."

"Wait," Abby quickly interrupted. "Why is Cord still not awake?"

All of us looked at Cord, who was still somehow sleeping despite the commotion. Either he's a deep sleeper, or he's doing it on purpose. We all went to him, and I jumped on the couch. Placing one of my fingers just under on his tiny nose, I felt no air coming in or out of his nose.

"Hmm, he's not breathing. I think something's—..." My body realized that some dust fell onto my own tiny nose. "Achoo!!" My electric-stored cheeks finally got into the action when I sneezed, as they shot two separate sparks of electricity. In the end of the firing, they combined, and started to shock Cord. Abby and Chris were covering their eyes, while Cord... Was taking it in?

For some reason, instead of the electricity going around his body to shock the hell out of him, it was going straight into his chest powering his energy. I stopped a few moments later to see Cord open his eyes, gasping for air. "It worked!" Cord said, sitting up.

"What worked?" Chris asked.

Cord looked at Chris to realize he wasn't evil anymore... He quickly noted to Chris to not try whatever he did again.  "Anyway, I was hoping Manny was going to finally get that range attack he's been holding back for so long, so I can use it to my advantage. I guess you could say since I'm an Electric type, I don't take that much damage from the attack, and since I'm a Psychic type I can manipulate that to make energy towards my body."

That's... Somehow a very smart move. "What range attack are you talking about, though?" I asked him.

Cord smirked, "Thunderbolt."

You can say I was shocked when I said that... No? Damn it. "How do you know that?" I asked him confused.

"Well, it was a ranged attack from your cheeks, and it got me up and ready to move in a few moments. If it was Thundershock, it probably would have taken twice as the time as Thunderbolt did. Now..." Cord looked at the two Eevee. "What are we going to do with you two?"

Me and Cord looked at Abby and Chris. "I have an idea," Abby responded. "What if we join you two to the trip towards the Golden Coast since we all are going there anyway. But I ask for one thing in return: Cord and Chris joins me and Manny's exploration team."

Cord looked at me first. "I think that's a great idea."

"That makes three of us."

The three of us finally looked at Chris. "What are you looking at me for? All of you already said yes!"

We all had a laughing moment after that. "Okay you all, let's get out of here."

"Wait, what about this mess?" I asked, showing the obvious. The couch was still on its back and the fireplace was roaring, just getting close to start a fire.

"I don't think it matters. I always come here every so often so I can clean it up then."

Cord grabbed all three of us and used Teleport.

***

Meanwhile:

A shadow appeared at the peak of Misty Mountain. There was nothing that made the shadow, only that it was there. A few moments later, the shadow rose from the gravel and took the form of a Pokémon.

It was a Bisharp.

"Looks like the four of them left, sir."

Another shadow formed but stayed in the ground instead of taking form. "Indeed, they did, Bisharp... It seems like these other three Pokémon are more resilient than I thought."

"Yes... You even possessed that human to try and stop them, and yet they defeated him in a matter of minutes."

The shadow glances at the Bisharp. "That Pikachu of theirs... you could say he's peculiar. I'm going to investigate this."

"What about the cabin right here?"

The shadow looked at the Bisharp, and Bisharp looked at the shadow.

"Destroy it. And find Agent 768." The shadow disappeared.

"Yes, sir." The Bisharp decided to use X-Scissor and aimed it right at the cabin. When it hit, the only occurrence happened... The cabin exploded. "Task complete." The Bisharp decided to deform and disappear. Leaving no trace of anything, but a burned and broken down cabin.

*Game File Saved*